Little Goldbug 
Iain Bamforth
Tomi Ungerer is a household name in the German-speaking world – at least in that portion of it which raises 1.6 children. He has published 120 books, many of them for children; in 1997 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Prize. He was born into a famous family of clockmakers in 1931, and raised in a suburb of Colmar, one of those idyllic medieval towns on the Rhine that seem lost to time.
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Iain Bamforth, who lives in Strasbourg, is preparing a collection of essays on literature and medicine.
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